Elder Holland Presents Scottish Museum with Stone Inscribed with 8 Words That Changed a Prophet's Life

“I accepted the message given to me on that stone, and from that moment we tried to do our part as missionaries in Scotland.” —President David O. McKay

Learn how two missionaries saved from demolition the stone with an inscription that changed a prophet's life and how a replica of that same stone came to be in a museum in Scotland.

As a discouraged, homesick young missionary serving in Stirling, Scotland, in March 1897, Elder David O. McKay noticed an inscribed stone on the side of an apartment building under construction near his flat.